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Title The risks of prescription drugs / edited by Donald W. Light
Published New York : Columbia University Press, [2010]
©2010

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Description 167 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Series A Columbia/SSRC book
The Columbia University Press and Social Science Research Council series on the privatization of risk
Columbia University Press and Social Science Research Council series on the privatization of risk.
Columbia/SSRC book.
Contents Bearing the risks of prescription drugs / Donald Light -- The Food and Drug Administration : inadequate protection from serious risks / Donald Light -- The commercialization of medical decisions : physicians and patients at risk / Howard Brody -- Pharmaceuticals and the medicalization of social life / Allan Horwitz -- Medicalization and risk scares : the case of menopause and HRT / Cheryl Stults and Peter Conrad -- Toward safer prescribing and better drugs / Donald Light
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject United States. Food and Drug Administration.
Drugs -- Risk assessment.
Drugs -- Risk factors.
Pharmaceutical industry -- Risk management.
Pharmaceutical policy -- United States.
Drug Industry -- standards.
Prescription Drugs -- standards.
Drug Toxicity.
Medication Errors -- prevention & control.
Risk Assessment.
SUBJECT United States. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481
Author Light, Donald, Jr., 1942-
Social Science Research Council (U.S.)
LC no. 2010009014
ISBN 0231146922 (cloth : alk. paper)
0231146930 (paperback: alk. paper)
9780231146920 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780231146937 (paperback: alk. paper)